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Description
10" (25 cm.) Bisque socket head with rounded facial shape,large brown glass enamel
eyes,dark painted eyeliner,lushly-painted lashes,brush-stroked and feathered
brows,accented nostrils and eye corners,closed mouth with outlined lips,pierced ears,blonde
lambswool wig over Steiner pate,French composition and wooden fully-jointed body with
straight wrists. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Sie C 8/0 (head) (Steiner cadeceus
stamp on torso) Au Nain Bleu/F. Chauviere/Boul des Capucines 27 Paris (original paper label).
Comments: Jules Steiner,an especially-commissioned bebe for the luxury Paris doll shop,circa
1882. Value Points: superb petite bebe with original signed body,Au Nain Bleu label,has
compelling expression that is especially notable on this tiny bebe,and wears wonderful
antique dress,undergarments,bebe pin,stockings,leather shoes signed with imprint of full
figure of a doll and "1",and fancily-trimmed early bonnet.